Blog
Notes & essays.
Long-form thinking on AI in product, decision-making, and what makes great teams stay relevant. Updated when I have something worth saying.
I keep running the same uncomfortable math
When the marginal cost of competent work falls, the value moves from labor to capital. The planning question that follows is uncomfortable to write down.
Read →Where AI ROI Is Actually Landing in 2026 (Hint: Not Your Shipped Features)
The honest 2026 AI return story is internal velocity, not customer-facing features. The numbers are clear. The investor decks are not.
The Two-Pizza Team Was an Answer to Constraints AI Just Solved
Bezos invented the two-pizza team to solve a specific optimization problem. The constraints behind that problem have changed in every dimension at once.
Welcome to the new site
Why I rebuilt this now: a season of change, and a need to make working with me simpler.
You're Measuring AI Adoption. You Should Be Measuring Learning Velocity.
Tool deployment is easy to count. It is also the wrong number. The measure that predicts whether your AI transformation is real is harder, and that is the point.
Moving Too Slow Is Now the #1 AI Risk in Product
Eighteen months ago, the dominant fear was AI hype. Now it is being left behind. The reversal is real, but the diagnosis underneath it is mostly wrong.
You are not ten years behind. You are forty hours behind.
Most of what looks like a decade of accumulated AI knowledge is actually ten to forty hours of focused use.
The Visionary Paradox: Why Zero Product Teams Have Strategy Without Execution
The most striking finding in our 2026 survey was not what we expected. Strategy without execution does not survive in the wild.
AI is quietly breaking accountability in your team
When anyone can generate a document in minutes, output volume stops being a signal of effort. Unless ownership is structurally protected, it diffuses.
The More the Ground shakes, the More the Foundation Matters
Psychological safety is not a culture project running alongside AI transformation. It is a prerequisite for the transformation to go well.
The Death of the Builder PM
Why AI is correcting product management back to its commercial roots, and what survives the shift.